keepthefaith

Salary was taken into consideration. If someone will pay him that much, he's got to be good!

Seriously, love him or not all 32 starting QBs in the league are not better than JP.

The knee recovery doesn't sell any longer. He's simply evaluated from his effort and results which have never lived up to "his potential".

The agent sees about $20 million or more in guaranteed money that isn't in the current deal. He's apparently convinced his client that not playing is the best way to achieve that in the short run.

The newspaper industry has had a rude awakening and has failed to respond to the enormous change in how people get their news. Circulation rates and thus revenues are shrinking as people rely more on the internet to get their news. Newspapers have been forced to reduce budgets due to this. Sooner or later, newspapers will figure out that people like me will pay for a high quality on-line newspaper. One that includes all of the content of a paper newspaper. A few months ago, a very good friend of mine (who has a company that specializes in gathering and delivering web content in a very high quality fashion) had a meeting with the senior management of a very prominent newspaper in a large city to discuss exactly what I mentioned in the previous paragraph. The group of managers expressed the financial and marketing challenges that they now face. I asked my friend later how the meeting went. His exact words were, "these guys are a bunch of knuckleheads". He expressed that while they recognize the challenges they face, they continue to be loyal to a dying business model. I discontinued my Chicago Tribune subscription a couple years ago. Don't read it anymore. It's a terrific paper but I now have too many choices from which to get my news that don't include flipping through paper, and the news that the Tribune delivers on-line is incomplete and not as timely as other sources because they're still trying to pedal paper. For newspaper writers, that industry isn't doing them any favors.

Yeah it appeared that comment did get him in trouble, and I thought JP was reasonable in how he said it last year. Turk still has a lot to prove, but the very early results look like an improvement.

And both guys had played in 2 pro bowls or more.

Peters and his agent have turned this into a competition rather than a cooperation and the Bills have a history of cooperating with him. The heck with him. Let him sit.

I never grow tired of him talking about the Bills circling the wagons.

Miami should be on this list. Miserable teams in a miserable place filled with a lot of miserable people.

I know. The son-of-a-gun only completed 68% of his passes last night. Usually that's pretty good but when you miss a guy by only a few inches you come to expect that he should complete them all. No QB in the league is able to do that, but when you're JP, you expect he's gonna be perfect since his incomplete balls are so close to being completions also. Some QBs throw the ball away or miss the receiver entirely. You don't expect as much from them. It just doesn't look as bad when the QB misses by a lot because you figure what the heck, he wasn't gonna complete that one anyway.

Jauron holding out wouldn't bother me at all.

There wasn't much running room out there. Marshawn looks like a guy who only needs a little crease to pickup nice yardage. He's quick enough and powerful enough to exploit a small hole, but he's needs more to work with than they are giving him.

Well then by your definition the Cowboys are in a rebuilding mode and will be once again when Wade is replaced by another guy. That would mean that over a period of 6 years or so the cowboys have decided to "rebuild" 3 times. If that's what it takes to get 12 wins a year or so, I'm all for it.

Continuity is good if there are results that support a continued direction. Jauron has yet to produce those results with back to back 7-9's. 7-8 wins this year would simply support that this head coach and his approach to the game doesn't produce playoff caliber results. Continuity at that point would not be desired by most IMO. 9 wins this season to me is the absolute minimum acceptable result to support continuity. Otherwise it's time for a change.

The Bills are showing progress personnel-wise. We have no idea if the coaching staff can turn that into more wins, a playoff birth and a win or two in the playoffs. We'll begin to know later in this upcoming season. A new coach doesn't mean rebuilding. A change in direction yes, but not necessarily rebuilding. Dallas last year was not in a rebuilding mode with their new coach.

Dick gets credit for showing up to work. Too soon to offer Dick anything IMO. Let's see what can do with the better talent he has to work with now.

These guys probably sleeping off last night's "new stadium party" up until game time.

I don't think any of us can be surprised to see DJ kill the last minute of a half with the offense on the field. Anything else "wouldn't be prudent". Even in pre-season.

I like those 3 guys and also the Jamie Dukes segments. Some of the guys that are used more sparingly really need some work (Like Faulk).

The NFL network looks to me like an affirmative action effort to get ex-players media experience.

Now it's time for Dick to extract the most that can be done from this group.

Peters may not be truly great yet in the eyes of the front office.

I don't recall Schobel holding out and even if he did, the Bills have a new GM who apparently won't cave in to a holdout.

I can tell you this. A lot of athletes like to smoke pot. Some get caught.